GATE Literary Forms, Genres, and Modes of Expression: Literary Genres and Subgenres: History, evolution and importance of categorisation – Previous Year Questions

17 GATE previous year questions on Literary Genres and Subgenres: History, evolution and importance of categorisation (Literary Forms, Genres, and Modes of Expression, English (XH2)) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

1. GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q39 (1 mark, Multiple select) – To which of the following does the term “pastoral elegy” apply?
2. GATE 2026 XH2 (English) Q42 (1 mark, Multiple select) – Which of the following is/are (an) epistolary novel/s?
3. GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q29 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – The medieval fabliau is a .
4. GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q37 (1 mark, Multiple select) – Which of the following characteristic(s) is/are associated with the epic?
5. GATE 2025 XH2 (English) Q41 (1 mark, Multiple select) – Which of the following work(s) may be described as Lad Lit?
6. GATE 2024 XH2 (English) Q29 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Which one of the following is a famous detective character created by Edgar Allan Poe?
7. GATE 2024 XH2 (English) Q33 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – On the basis of genre, which of the following does NOT belong in this group?
8. GATE 2024 XH2 (English) Q35 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Agatha Christie broke a fundamental rule of detective fiction in .
9. GATE 2024 XH2 (English) Q38 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Which of the following is NOT part of the Theban trilogy?
10. GATE 2024 XH2 (English) Q45 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Which of the following options is NOT the title of a play?
11. GATE 2024 XH2 (English) Q51 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Which of the following statements is true of Magic Realism?
12. GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q37 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – What was Aristotle’s definition of hubris?
13. GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q51 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Choose from the following options the type of drama that is intended by the author to be read rather than to be performed:
14. GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q59 (2 marks, Multiple select) – Which of the following works may be described as novels in verse?
15. GATE 2023 XH2 (English) Q62 (2 marks, Multiple select) – Two examples of magic realist fiction include:
16. GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q46 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – What is common among the following novels? Cormac McCarthy’s The Road George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
17. GATE 2022 XH2 (English) Q54 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – ‘Anagnorisis’, as used by Aristotle in his theory of Tragedy, stands for .